Candiss's Comments

I loved The Sisters Brothers when I read it last year. I am not a fan of western-flavored reads, but I thought this was wonderful. It completely surprised me! The western elements were not the main point of the narrative; they were largely incidental. The character development, especially of the internal landscape of the main protagonist, was the central focus of the book.

Hi, I'm Candiss. I'm another who found the group due to its being featured recently.

I love many types of literature - speculative fiction, works in translation, classics, contemporary lit, etc. The past few years, my reading lists have settled so that I seem to read far more speculative fiction than anything else, and while I do love it, I decided I needed to keep myself from falling into a rut. I thought it would be helpful and enjoyable to get involved in a group focused on recent/contemporary literature - a strata I don't dig about in nearly as often as I should. (I tend to avoid best-sellers, and thus I often miss something wonderful. I need to break this habit of eschewing books that are popular, because sometimes they are so for very good reasons!)

I'm looking forward to starting in with The Cave with the group as soon as I can get my copy from the library. As luck would have it, both of this month's group picks are speculative fiction, which should surely be a sign to me. (I just recently had to return 1Q84 to the library for another patron's hold, and I was only 1/3 of the way done, so I will be unlikely to be able to get involved with that one.)